Thoughts on { The sun | Ursula K. Le Guin / Walt Whitman / Anne Frank / Victor Hugo / Agatha Christie / Henry W. Longfellow

Claude Monet, Woman with an Umbrella – Madame Monet and her Son, 1875
“Greed puts out the sun.”
“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
“How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“I believe in the sun, even when it rains.”
Anne Frank
“Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.”
“The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“There is evil everywhere under the sun.”
“The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.”
Also:
Days [ ) The sun | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880
Instant Views [o.] Sunbeams | Photos by W. Suschitzky / V. Maier / A. Diston / D. Seymour / M. Riboud